sl r129 anyone taken the risk on a 3/4k car

[Crook]

Sorry, more quiestions. This may be an anathema to some but has anyone got any experience of this replacement electric aerial please?

Mine makes a noise but does nothing.

Aerial

Thanks

ETA

Maybe I just need the mast bit. I think I need to investigate a bit more.

Edited by Crook on Wednesday 7th June 15:03

[Stegel]

Crook said:

Sorry, more quiestions. This may be an anathema to some but has anyone got any experience of this replacement electric aerial please?

Mine makes a noise but does nothing.

Aerial

Thanks

ETA

Maybe I just need the mast bit. I think I need to investigate a bit more.

Edited by Crook on Wednesday 7th June 15:03

There's a supplier on eBay (Car Masts UK from memory) who supplies genuine Hirschmann (spelling?) masts - it took me all of 3 minutes to swap the non-operating mast on my SL.

[Zonergem]

Fupabox on YouTube is your friend here. Also get a cheap set of trim removal tools from eBay as you'll be pulling a lot of push rivets if you do have to get behind the boot carpets. Then you can gaze in awe at the solidity and rustproofing of the beast, particularly the early cars.

I may break an R129 soon with a working aerial, depending on what the men from the Ministry (of Transport) have to say on the subject.

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(Obviously I will not break a nearly-healthy R129 but instead throw utterly uneconomic amounts of time and money into fixing it, only for other things to go wrong. Then sell it at a huge loss. It's good to have a hobby.)

[Stegel]

If the aerial is making a noise I'd give it the benefit of the doubt and try a new mast - unscrew one nut, pull aerial out, feed new one in as you turn radio off and tighten the new nut. The rust proofing etc. can remain a mystery until the next issue (and there will be a next issue).

Zonergem - the photo of SL2 looked pretty good - I'm sure it will deserve and appreciate substantial expenditure!

[Crook]

Thanks for the replies.
It was the Hirschmann ebay guy I linked to but the description seemed to suggest it was the same as rather than an actual Hirshmann but I may have been mistaken.

A new mast sounds like a good first call if it's as easy as it sounds...

[Lowtimer]

Zonergem said:

I may break an R129 soon with a working aerial, depending on what the men from the Ministry (of Transport) have to say on the subject.

Well, if you do, let me know as I could do with a few bits here and there for mine.

[Skyedriver]

Zonergem said:

I may break an R129 soon

McBlue one?

[Zonergem]

Ha, not that one but another, in the same colours inside and out. Was bought for roughly the same money as the Jock car when he offered you that discount. 500SL, K plate, April 1992 build, Feb 1993 first registered, UK market, one of the last 066 chassis cars so solid wiring loom. 113k miles, history got lost but used to exist, allegedly. MOT history reads well. Service stickers in the door from an indie in Reading, next service not "due" until 115k but if it passes its MoT tomorrow in Darlington and if the bodywork quote isn't unthinkable then it will get a full going-over with Neville.

Keeper from 2010-2015 was an IT honcho in Swindon, a piece of paper I found when cleaning under the seats points to a consultant anaesthetist in Berkshire before that. Might send off for the V888. Hoping to do it up and sell on for cost, but if it has terminal Bork there are lots of good parts. Think it had a make-over with Derwent, the MB dealer in Leeds in 1999 - the (Becker) radio has a relevant sticker on the back and one of the seat cushions has their parts bin label and the same date. Also has a very clean 6 bar grill and corrosion free headlamp wipers. Have you seen the price of dome light assemblies?! Guess they all get ruined when the roof rams above the windscreen leak.

Edited by Zonergem on Thursday 8th June 20:35

Edited by Zonergem on Thursday 8th June 20:37

[Crook]

Zonergem said:

Ha, not that one but another, in the same colours inside and out. Was bought for roughly the same money as the Jock car when he offered you that discount. 500SL, K plate, April 1992 build, Feb 1993 first registered, UK market, one of the last 066 chassis cars so solid wiring loom. 113k miles, history got lost but used to exist, allegedly. MOT history reads well. Service stickers in the door from an indie in Reading, next service not "due" until 115k but if it passes its MoT tomorrow in Darlington and if the bodywork quote isn't unthinkable then it will get a full going-over with Neville.

Keeper from 2010-2015 was an IT honcho in Swindon, a piece of paper I found when cleaning under the seats points to a consultant anaesthetist in Berkshire before that. Might send off for the V888. Hoping to do it up and sell on for cost, but if it has terminal Bork there are lots of good parts. Think it had a make-over with Derwent, the MB dealer in Leeds in 1999 - the (Becker) radio has a relevant sticker on the back and one of the seat cushions has their parts bin label and the same date. Also has a very clean 6 bar grill and corrosion free headlamp wipers. Have you seen the price of dome light assemblies?! Guess they all get ruined when the roof rams above the windscreen leak.

Edited by Zonergem on Thursday 8th June 20:35

Edited by Zonergem on Thursday 8th June 20:37

Obviously much better all round if it remains un fragged but should that not be practical...

Driver's side map bin lid and speaker cover?...

[f1ten]

Here is hoping ou don't have to break it !

[Zonergem]

Stands in a barn for two years, dusty and unloved.

Bought for mid-thread budget.

Fresh fuel, bulbs, Redex and an Italian tune-up later.

Passes MoT no sweat.



ETA - 129.066, so has the M119.960 5 litre V8 with KE-Jetronic fuelling and a kosher wiring loom. April 1992 build, UK market, Feb 1993 first registered.

Edited by Zonergem on Friday 9th June 15:55

[Crook]

Great colour BTW!

[harrykul]

Excellent work!

[f1ten]

Sensible family motoring! Good news Uruk sailed through.

[truck71]

Zonergem said:

Stands in a barn for two years, dusty and unloved.

Bought for mid-thread budget.

Fresh fuel, bulbs, Redex and an Italian tune-up later.

Passes MoT no sweat.



ETA - 129.066, so has the M119.960 5 litre V8 with KE-Jetronic fuelling and a kosher wiring loom. April 1992 build, UK market, Feb 1993 first registered.

Edited by Zonergem on Friday 9th June 15:55

Looks hansom that.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

truck71 said:

Zonergem said:

Stands in a barn for two years, dusty and unloved.

Bought for mid-thread budget.

Fresh fuel, bulbs, Redex and an Italian tune-up later.

Passes MoT no sweat.



ETA - 129.066, so has the M119.960 5 litre V8 with KE-Jetronic fuelling and a kosher wiring loom. April 1992 build, UK market, Feb 1993 first registered.

Edited by Zonergem on Friday 9th June 15:55

Looks hansom that.

Agreed, that looks fantastic. Some gingers on that would set it off perfectly.

[Zonergem]

Gingers are hard to source. NLA from Mercedes. I bought some from a breakers, promised them to Oa for cost, but the clips were a bit shagged. When I test fitted them to my car one flew out.

Gingers do look much better. I will start a Reader's Car(s) thread.

Edited by Zonergem on Friday 9th June 18:58

[Lowtimer]

I managed to get some new old stock Bosch ones from eBay in Germany last year, always a good place to try

[TimboL]

Stegel said:

If the aerial is making a noise I'd give it the benefit of the doubt and try a new mast - unscrew one nut, pull aerial out, feed new one in as you turn radio off and tighten the new nut. The rust proofing etc. can remain a mystery until the next issue (and there will be a next issue).

Zonergem - the photo of SL2 looked pretty good - I'm sure it will deserve and appreciate substantial expenditure!

The OEM parts for R129s are getting increasingly hard to source. I try very hard to keep mine to the factory spec:

The very fine people who maintain mine (A&A Merctech) had a delay getting new cats a year or so ago.

The original radio mast is hard to get. They last only a couple of years. Emery paper, WD40, and sewing machine oil is a reasonable (albeit time-consuming) substitute for replacement.

We are currently awaiting availability for a pair of OEM replacements for a busted spring in the ADS damping.

New replacement parts for the pano roof roller blind are no longer available from MB.

Other:

The truly most excellent Paul Ralhan (on here) sourced, and did a brilliant job of fitting, an OEM replacement windscreen.

The enormous extent of the rust underneath is a worry.

[Hereward]

TimboL said:

The OEM parts for R129s are getting increasingly hard to source. I try very hard to keep mine to the factory spec:

I have had success with these people in promptly sourcing new parts that my local Merc main dealer told me were NLA:
https://www.online-teile.com/mercedes-ersatzteile/...